MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

Evening Star, Issue 21641, 9 February 1934, Page 11

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES The following extracts have been taken from the various committee reports which are to be presented at nesda.v night’s meeting of the City Council: — GENERAL. The General Committee’s report reads:— ' Milk Sale and Distribution.—Consideration has been given to representations made by deputation from the Dunedin Milk Producers and Retailers Association on the subject of the sale and distribution of milk ip the city. The primary object of the deputation was to ask that the council should take such steps as might bo necessary to require that all vendors of milk within the city, which would include those who deliver milk by vehicle from door to door, should take out a license. This is a matter which had already received some preliminary investigation, and it was generally held that, ir order to ensure adequate control and regulation of milk sale and distribution within the city, it was essential that all concerned in the business should be brought within the scope of some regulation. At the present time shopkeepers engaged in the retail sale of milk are subject to such regulation, and are required to take out a license, but, as already stated, the milk cart vendor is not. The committee now proposes to make provision for the milk cart vendor to bo brought within the scope of local regulation and control, and has therefore given instructions for a b.v-law to be framed, which will provide, inter alia, for the issue of a yearly license for such vendors Licenses and Permits.—Applications for licenses and permits have been granted as follow :—Second-hand dealers’, 2; trade sign, Georg© street, 1. Two applications for permits to erect temporary calico signs for use in trade advertising have been declined. An application from the Post Office building contractors for permission to utilise the hoarding fence round the Post Office building site for advertising purposes has been declined. WAIPORI MINING PLANT. The Electric Power and Lighting Committee states that, as inquiries are being received by the department as to the disposal of pipes and mining plant now lying at Waipori, which were acquired by the council at the time of the settlement of the flooding claims, instructions have been given for the whole of the plant to be advertised for sale by public advertisement. GAS COMMITTEE. Carbonising Results.—The gas engineer’s summary of the carbonising results obtained at the works for the month of January indicates an increase in the gas output for the month, as compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, of '626,000 cubic feet—3.o-10 per cent. Gas Examiner’s Report.—The report of the Government gas examiner on his tests of the city gas supply during tho month of January indicates that the gas was in all respects in accordance with tho prescribed standard.